So tonight I went out before the star party to try and see if changing the distance between the sensor chip and the corrector would make a difference in the star shapes. It didn't appear to.

And on top of that, I was having strange drift issues even though my guide graph looked pretty good. All the stars are oblong. Waaaaa... I hope I can get things dialed in quickly on the first night of the star party tomorrow otherwise all of my images will have sloppy stars. I guess even if they do I'll still get better images then I would here at my house.

Comments:
On 05/30/09 at 04:24pm Tony wrote:that's a really cool picture of m27 (i like to call it m27 because it doesn't look like a dumbell whatsoever).On 05/22/09 at 02:46am Barry wrote:Of course.....2am....5/21. You will have to excuse me, I'm a little slow. On 05/21/09 at 10:03pm Neil Heacock wrote:Thank ye kindy Barr.

And yeah... I took it last night though it was 2 am so technically it was 5/21. 8^)

However, there is a kind of a bug in this site where you can only have one entry per date. Two entries with the same date make it glitch. I guess I could have made an addendum to yesterday's entry.

LOL....

-NeilOn 05/21/09 at 09:57pm Barry wrote:Nice image....lots of dim stars...minimal bloating. The definition in the nebula is outstanding. Nice job of processing.....you are getting to be a pro!

You must have captured this last night, 5/20/09.....since it's not dark yet tonight.